With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.
With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.
The Cuckoo's Child
After a donor match test for her brother with leukemia reveals she is not her parents' biological child, Livvy embarks on a search for her birth family that leads her to clues about her son, who disappeared eleven years earlier.
Yorkshire, 1909.
A young woman comes of age and discovers her hidden past in this gripping historical mystery set in the north of England.
Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they are reported lost at sea.
And all is well. But when his brothers and sisters sing out Too-too-weet! Too-too-weet! Cuckoo instead chirps Cuckoo! and no one can understand him. When he leaves his nest, Cuckoo still can’t find anyone who speaks his language.
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril.
As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon.
Jack is mad about birds and when he gets hold of an ostrich egg he is determined to hatch it successfully.